To link to the entire object, paste this link in email, IM or documentTo embed the entire object, paste this HTML in websiteTo link to this page, paste this link in email, IM or documentTo embed this page, paste this HTML in website

A new concert series on cam-pus
seeks to raise money for
world hunger as well as to pro-vide
the campus with more live
music.
The Sigma Pi concert series
held its first event Friday, Jan.
27, with campus bands The
Zyphoid Process and Fierce
Mellon. The fraternity hopes to
make the event a monthly
occurrence.
The event, organized by
Sigma Pi member Mark
Tomasino, will donate all pro-ceeds
to the hunger crisis in
Malawi, Africa. Tomasino saw
a news report on Malawi last
semester and was moved to
action.
“They're trying really hard to
drum up support for the cause,”
said Tomasino. “It's reached a
dire state, but there's a problem
with donor fatigue.” His com-ment
refers to the world popula-tion's
exhaustion from donating
to the victims of the many natur-al
disasters that have occurred in
the last year and a half.
“Malawi and other African
countries are not getting the
support they usually would and
that they need, and the problem
is getting worse,” Tomasino
said.
Sigma Pi has held many
Battle of the Bands events at
their house on campus in the
past. This year, Tomasino sug-gested
they hold similar events,
but shift the emphasis from
competition to raising money
for charity.
“It was definitely a lot of fun,
Citizens on both sides of the public
smoking debate got the chance to
voice their opinions Monday night at
a town hall meeting. The event, held
at the Normal Theatre in downtown
Normal, was co-sponsored by Illinois
Wesleyan Political Science Professor
Greg Shaw and WJBC AM 1230
News Director Colleen Reynolds.
“This is democracy in the raw,”
Shaw said. “We're allowing everyone
to have some input about the issue,
and we hope people come away with
a sense of balance.”
The public
was invited to
ask questions of
a six-person
panel selected
by Shaw,
including local
restaurant owners, a pulmonologist
and leaders from community and
statewide organizations involved in
the debate.
Although no ordinance has yet
been proposed by either city, the con-troversy
over a public smoking ban in
Bloomington-Normal has been rag-ing
for weeks. It was sparked by the
state legislature's recent amendment
of the 1992 Illinois Clean Air Act. A
new law, effective Jan. 1, 2006, grant-ed
individual communities the right
to determine public smoking ordi-nances.
Over the past few weeks, the city
councils of Bloomington and Normal
have held several joint meetings
intended to gauge local reaction to a
ban on smoking in indoor public
places. If an ordinance is passed, it
will apply to both cities.
On Monday night, Shaw summed
up the “three camps” of thought.
“Some people are in favor of a com-prehensive
ban on smoking, while
smokers argue that it would infringe
on their rights. Others, mostly non-smokers,
acknowledge the health
issues, but feel that it's their neigh-bor's
right to smoke if they want to,”
he said.
Monday night's meeting focused
on another contentious aspect of the
debate, the possible effect on restau-rants
and bars if an ordinance were
passed. In his opening statement,
panelist Tom
H u b b a r d ,
owner of
Cheeks Bar and
Grill in
Bloomington,
made clear his
stance on the issue. “I'm being told
this is being done for altruistic rea-sons,”
he said. “I don't buy it. I think
[ban supporters] are in it for their own
interests.”
Dozens of audience members ques-tioned
the panelists, with topics rang-ing
from public health and financial
impact to theoretical issues of free-dom
of choice and the limits of gov-ernment
responsibility for its citizens'
well-being.
Downtown Normal Business
Association President and Jimmy
John's owner Mary Strack reported
that members of her organization are
in favor of allowing individual busi-nesses
to determine their own smok-ing
policies. Audience members
asked the panelists about a number of
proposed compromises, including
clear designation of smoking estab-lishments
or a tax incentive program
for smoke-free businesses.
John Schmitt, owner of Ned Kelly's
Steakhouse, which went smoke-free a
year ago, dismissed these options.
“Are you talking about a compro-mise?”
Schmitt asked. “I think you're
compromising health.”
Panelist and Director of Public
Policy for the American Lung
Association of Illinois Kathy Drea
agreed. “Exposure to secondhand
smoke is a public health issue, not an
annoyance issue,” she said.
Ban supporters argued that smok-ing
in restaurants and bars jeopar-dizes
the long-term health of employ-ees,
while opponents charged that its
effects are impossible to accurately
evaluate.
“Medically, I'm biased. I'm biased
towards health,” pulmonologist Dr.
Chae Chu of the Illinois Heart and
Lung Foundation said. “A growing
body of scientific evidence supports
the dangers of secondhand smoke,
including heart disease and lung can-cer.”
Steve Riedl, Executive Director of
the Illinois Licensed Beverage
Association, downplayed health
risks, repeatedly stating that the gov-ernment
has established no guidelines
for levels of secondhand smoke.
“We're not saying that secondhand
smoke is healthy. We're saying that
it's not the Grim Reaper that [pro-ban
panelists] are making it out to be.”
The audience at the meeting
reflected the sharp divide on the issue
Nine to 15 percent of college students
have an eating disorder of some varia-tion.
It is estimated that over 20 people
have gone to Counseling and
Consultation Services this school year
with concerns of an eating disorder.
Eating disorders do not just concern
women. “It is not really common, but
men do have eating disorders,” Lisa
Novinska of Counseling Services for
Illinois Wesleyan said. These eating dis-orders
include the well-known anorexia
and bulimia, but also over-eating, or
compulsive eating disorder.
“People with eating disorders will
spend a lot of time thinking about food,
weight or body image. They will be
found counting calories a lot and severe-ly
restricting their intake. They may
even order food but just play around with
it and not eat it,” Novinska said.
Novinska offers this advice to students
concerned for the health of a friend: “If
you don't know a lot about eating disor-ders,
first educate yourself on-line or
make an appointment at counseling ser-vices
to talk about eating disorders.”
According to Novinska, students should
express their concerns to their friends
calmly, not accusingly. “If the conversa-tion
gets too heated or emotional, it is
okay to stop. You may want to talk to a
counselor for advice on where to go from
there. But what you have to remember is
that it's definitely up to them. As much as
we may want to we can't make them do
anything, you can only make sugges-tions,”
Novinska said.
The government is continually trying
to pass legislation on eating disorders.
House Representatives Judy Biggert
from Illinois and Ted Strickland of Ohio
proposed the Eating Disorder Awareness,
Education and Prevention Act of 2005.
This act amends the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act of 1965 to
authorize the use of innovative assis-tance
funds for programs to better identi-fy
students with eating disorders, to
increase awareness with students and
parents and to train teachers to use effec-tive
preventative and assistance meth-ods.
This is important because of the risks
involved with eating disorders.
Depending on how young the person is, a
disorder could slow their growth and
delay the onset of puberty. Eating disor-ders
also damage the organs and esopha-gus
and even deteriorate tooth enamel.
In extreme cases, eating disorders lead to
death. Novinska said, “Recently eating
disorders have become the highest mor-tality
rate of any mental illness, which
means that 20 percent of people who
have an eating disorder die from it.”
“Eating disorders actually slow down
Illinois Wesleyan University was founded
156 years ago by a group of men that decided
that the area needed a quality institute of high-er
learning.
According to an inscription on the
Founders' Gate (which now adorns the John
Wesley Powell Rotunda in The Ames
Library), the purpose of Illinois Wesleyan is to
produce students who “shall not only affect
the fortune of the Republic, but reach in their
influence other and distant nations of the
Earth.” This spirit of globalization, a part of
Illinois Wesleyan since its inception, is the
theme of this year's Founders' Day
Convocation, according to President Richard
F. Wilson.
“We honor the international aspirations of
our founders by bringing artists and speakers
such as Zuzana
P a u l e c h o v a -
Stiasna and
K e n n e t h
Pomeranz to cam-pus,”
Wilson said.
The con-vocation
opened
with Wilson's
remarks, fol-lowed
by guest
p e r f o r m e r
P a u l e c h o v a -
Stiasna. A
p i a n i s t ,
P a u l e c h o v a -
Stiasna is from
the Slovak
Republic and has
won numerous
awards for her
playing. She per-formed
“Toccata”
by Eugen
Suchon.
With Paulechova-Stiasna representing inter-national
artists, Pomeranz, a Phi Beta Kappa
Visiting Scholar, spoke on behalf of interna-tional
academics. Pomeranz's presentation
was an in-depth look at the so-called “East
Asian Miracle,” specifically in China.
This topic is especially important in today's
global world, according to Gabriel Spalding,
professor of physics and president of IWU's
Phi Beta Kappa chapter. “A great deal of what
will happen in [our] lives revolves around
what has happened and what will happen in
Asia,” he said.
As the chancellor's professor of history and
professor of East Asian languages and litera-ture
at the University of California, Irvine,
Pomeranz has spent his career studying
Chinese and comparative economic develop-ment,
among other topics.
According to Pomeranz, there has been
much debate recently among historians and
economists
SPORTS, PAGE 8
IWU basketball star
up for award
New P.O.D album worth
a look to fans
First Class
Permit 30
THEARGUS Illinois Wesleyan University
A
FEBRUARY 10, 2006
FEATURES, PAGE 3
Smoking debate heats up
Give a whole new
meaning to a face lift
OP/ED, PAGE 4
Weekend We a t h e r
Sunday
Courtesy of www.weather.com
High: 29 Low: 23
Partly Cloudy
Saturday
VOLUME 112 ISSUE 16
High: 31 Low: 20
Flurries
V E R O N I C A L U P O R I N I
S TA F F W R I T E R
Eating disorders campus
problem, counselor says
E R I E M A R T H A R O B E R T S
S TA F F W R I T E R
Founders’
Day event
looks past
campus to
the world
see CHINA p.2
seeEATING p.6
IWU’s own LiveAid
L U K E G U L L U C K S O N
S TA F F W R I T E R
Kenneth Pomeranz, the keynote speak-er
at this year’s Founders’ Day
Convocation, discussed the East Asian
Miracle.
DAN WOOD/THE ARGUS
Sophomore Carrie Otto questions
the panel at last Monday’s town hall
meeting.
TYLER SMITH/THE ARGUS
A M E L I A B E N N E R
S TA F F W R I T E R
“A great
deal of what
will happen
in our lives
r e v o l v e s
around what
has hap-pened
in
Asia.”
K E N N E T H
P O M E R A N Z
PHI BETA KAPPA
VISITING SCHOLAR
Inside:
• News Analysis:
Point/Counter-point, page 8
An audience member addresses three pro-smoking ban panelists, (from left to right) Dr. Chae Chu, Kathy Drea and John Schmitt, at
last Monday’s town hall meeting.
TYLER SMITH/THE ARGUS
seeCONCERTS p.2
see SMOKING BAN p.2

Argus issues published from 1894-Spring 2003 were scanned at 600 dpi on a NM1000-SS scanner by Northern Micrographics, La Crosse, Wisconsin. Fulltext OCR was accomplished by the same company in Summer 2009. Issues published from the fall of 2003-present are born-digital.

Please email Tate Archives at archives@iwu.edu or call 309-556-1535 for more information. Permission to reproduce these images must be granted by IWU.

Full Text

A new concert series on cam-pus
seeks to raise money for
world hunger as well as to pro-vide
the campus with more live
music.
The Sigma Pi concert series
held its first event Friday, Jan.
27, with campus bands The
Zyphoid Process and Fierce
Mellon. The fraternity hopes to
make the event a monthly
occurrence.
The event, organized by
Sigma Pi member Mark
Tomasino, will donate all pro-ceeds
to the hunger crisis in
Malawi, Africa. Tomasino saw
a news report on Malawi last
semester and was moved to
action.
“They're trying really hard to
drum up support for the cause,”
said Tomasino. “It's reached a
dire state, but there's a problem
with donor fatigue.” His com-ment
refers to the world popula-tion's
exhaustion from donating
to the victims of the many natur-al
disasters that have occurred in
the last year and a half.
“Malawi and other African
countries are not getting the
support they usually would and
that they need, and the problem
is getting worse,” Tomasino
said.
Sigma Pi has held many
Battle of the Bands events at
their house on campus in the
past. This year, Tomasino sug-gested
they hold similar events,
but shift the emphasis from
competition to raising money
for charity.
“It was definitely a lot of fun,
Citizens on both sides of the public
smoking debate got the chance to
voice their opinions Monday night at
a town hall meeting. The event, held
at the Normal Theatre in downtown
Normal, was co-sponsored by Illinois
Wesleyan Political Science Professor
Greg Shaw and WJBC AM 1230
News Director Colleen Reynolds.
“This is democracy in the raw,”
Shaw said. “We're allowing everyone
to have some input about the issue,
and we hope people come away with
a sense of balance.”
The public
was invited to
ask questions of
a six-person
panel selected
by Shaw,
including local
restaurant owners, a pulmonologist
and leaders from community and
statewide organizations involved in
the debate.
Although no ordinance has yet
been proposed by either city, the con-troversy
over a public smoking ban in
Bloomington-Normal has been rag-ing
for weeks. It was sparked by the
state legislature's recent amendment
of the 1992 Illinois Clean Air Act. A
new law, effective Jan. 1, 2006, grant-ed
individual communities the right
to determine public smoking ordi-nances.
Over the past few weeks, the city
councils of Bloomington and Normal
have held several joint meetings
intended to gauge local reaction to a
ban on smoking in indoor public
places. If an ordinance is passed, it
will apply to both cities.
On Monday night, Shaw summed
up the “three camps” of thought.
“Some people are in favor of a com-prehensive
ban on smoking, while
smokers argue that it would infringe
on their rights. Others, mostly non-smokers,
acknowledge the health
issues, but feel that it's their neigh-bor's
right to smoke if they want to,”
he said.
Monday night's meeting focused
on another contentious aspect of the
debate, the possible effect on restau-rants
and bars if an ordinance were
passed. In his opening statement,
panelist Tom
H u b b a r d ,
owner of
Cheeks Bar and
Grill in
Bloomington,
made clear his
stance on the issue. “I'm being told
this is being done for altruistic rea-sons,”
he said. “I don't buy it. I think
[ban supporters] are in it for their own
interests.”
Dozens of audience members ques-tioned
the panelists, with topics rang-ing
from public health and financial
impact to theoretical issues of free-dom
of choice and the limits of gov-ernment
responsibility for its citizens'
well-being.
Downtown Normal Business
Association President and Jimmy
John's owner Mary Strack reported
that members of her organization are
in favor of allowing individual busi-nesses
to determine their own smok-ing
policies. Audience members
asked the panelists about a number of
proposed compromises, including
clear designation of smoking estab-lishments
or a tax incentive program
for smoke-free businesses.
John Schmitt, owner of Ned Kelly's
Steakhouse, which went smoke-free a
year ago, dismissed these options.
“Are you talking about a compro-mise?”
Schmitt asked. “I think you're
compromising health.”
Panelist and Director of Public
Policy for the American Lung
Association of Illinois Kathy Drea
agreed. “Exposure to secondhand
smoke is a public health issue, not an
annoyance issue,” she said.
Ban supporters argued that smok-ing
in restaurants and bars jeopar-dizes
the long-term health of employ-ees,
while opponents charged that its
effects are impossible to accurately
evaluate.
“Medically, I'm biased. I'm biased
towards health,” pulmonologist Dr.
Chae Chu of the Illinois Heart and
Lung Foundation said. “A growing
body of scientific evidence supports
the dangers of secondhand smoke,
including heart disease and lung can-cer.”
Steve Riedl, Executive Director of
the Illinois Licensed Beverage
Association, downplayed health
risks, repeatedly stating that the gov-ernment
has established no guidelines
for levels of secondhand smoke.
“We're not saying that secondhand
smoke is healthy. We're saying that
it's not the Grim Reaper that [pro-ban
panelists] are making it out to be.”
The audience at the meeting
reflected the sharp divide on the issue
Nine to 15 percent of college students
have an eating disorder of some varia-tion.
It is estimated that over 20 people
have gone to Counseling and
Consultation Services this school year
with concerns of an eating disorder.
Eating disorders do not just concern
women. “It is not really common, but
men do have eating disorders,” Lisa
Novinska of Counseling Services for
Illinois Wesleyan said. These eating dis-orders
include the well-known anorexia
and bulimia, but also over-eating, or
compulsive eating disorder.
“People with eating disorders will
spend a lot of time thinking about food,
weight or body image. They will be
found counting calories a lot and severe-ly
restricting their intake. They may
even order food but just play around with
it and not eat it,” Novinska said.
Novinska offers this advice to students
concerned for the health of a friend: “If
you don't know a lot about eating disor-ders,
first educate yourself on-line or
make an appointment at counseling ser-vices
to talk about eating disorders.”
According to Novinska, students should
express their concerns to their friends
calmly, not accusingly. “If the conversa-tion
gets too heated or emotional, it is
okay to stop. You may want to talk to a
counselor for advice on where to go from
there. But what you have to remember is
that it's definitely up to them. As much as
we may want to we can't make them do
anything, you can only make sugges-tions,”
Novinska said.
The government is continually trying
to pass legislation on eating disorders.
House Representatives Judy Biggert
from Illinois and Ted Strickland of Ohio
proposed the Eating Disorder Awareness,
Education and Prevention Act of 2005.
This act amends the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act of 1965 to
authorize the use of innovative assis-tance
funds for programs to better identi-fy
students with eating disorders, to
increase awareness with students and
parents and to train teachers to use effec-tive
preventative and assistance meth-ods.
This is important because of the risks
involved with eating disorders.
Depending on how young the person is, a
disorder could slow their growth and
delay the onset of puberty. Eating disor-ders
also damage the organs and esopha-gus
and even deteriorate tooth enamel.
In extreme cases, eating disorders lead to
death. Novinska said, “Recently eating
disorders have become the highest mor-tality
rate of any mental illness, which
means that 20 percent of people who
have an eating disorder die from it.”
“Eating disorders actually slow down
Illinois Wesleyan University was founded
156 years ago by a group of men that decided
that the area needed a quality institute of high-er
learning.
According to an inscription on the
Founders' Gate (which now adorns the John
Wesley Powell Rotunda in The Ames
Library), the purpose of Illinois Wesleyan is to
produce students who “shall not only affect
the fortune of the Republic, but reach in their
influence other and distant nations of the
Earth.” This spirit of globalization, a part of
Illinois Wesleyan since its inception, is the
theme of this year's Founders' Day
Convocation, according to President Richard
F. Wilson.
“We honor the international aspirations of
our founders by bringing artists and speakers
such as Zuzana
P a u l e c h o v a -
Stiasna and
K e n n e t h
Pomeranz to cam-pus,”
Wilson said.
The con-vocation
opened
with Wilson's
remarks, fol-lowed
by guest
p e r f o r m e r
P a u l e c h o v a -
Stiasna. A
p i a n i s t ,
P a u l e c h o v a -
Stiasna is from
the Slovak
Republic and has
won numerous
awards for her
playing. She per-formed
“Toccata”
by Eugen
Suchon.
With Paulechova-Stiasna representing inter-national
artists, Pomeranz, a Phi Beta Kappa
Visiting Scholar, spoke on behalf of interna-tional
academics. Pomeranz's presentation
was an in-depth look at the so-called “East
Asian Miracle,” specifically in China.
This topic is especially important in today's
global world, according to Gabriel Spalding,
professor of physics and president of IWU's
Phi Beta Kappa chapter. “A great deal of what
will happen in [our] lives revolves around
what has happened and what will happen in
Asia,” he said.
As the chancellor's professor of history and
professor of East Asian languages and litera-ture
at the University of California, Irvine,
Pomeranz has spent his career studying
Chinese and comparative economic develop-ment,
among other topics.
According to Pomeranz, there has been
much debate recently among historians and
economists
SPORTS, PAGE 8
IWU basketball star
up for award
New P.O.D album worth
a look to fans
First Class
Permit 30
THEARGUS Illinois Wesleyan University
A
FEBRUARY 10, 2006
FEATURES, PAGE 3
Smoking debate heats up
Give a whole new
meaning to a face lift
OP/ED, PAGE 4
Weekend We a t h e r
Sunday
Courtesy of www.weather.com
High: 29 Low: 23
Partly Cloudy
Saturday
VOLUME 112 ISSUE 16
High: 31 Low: 20
Flurries
V E R O N I C A L U P O R I N I
S TA F F W R I T E R
Eating disorders campus
problem, counselor says
E R I E M A R T H A R O B E R T S
S TA F F W R I T E R
Founders’
Day event
looks past
campus to
the world
see CHINA p.2
seeEATING p.6
IWU’s own LiveAid
L U K E G U L L U C K S O N
S TA F F W R I T E R
Kenneth Pomeranz, the keynote speak-er
at this year’s Founders’ Day
Convocation, discussed the East Asian
Miracle.
DAN WOOD/THE ARGUS
Sophomore Carrie Otto questions
the panel at last Monday’s town hall
meeting.
TYLER SMITH/THE ARGUS
A M E L I A B E N N E R
S TA F F W R I T E R
“A great
deal of what
will happen
in our lives
r e v o l v e s
around what
has hap-pened
in
Asia.”
K E N N E T H
P O M E R A N Z
PHI BETA KAPPA
VISITING SCHOLAR
Inside:
• News Analysis:
Point/Counter-point, page 8
An audience member addresses three pro-smoking ban panelists, (from left to right) Dr. Chae Chu, Kathy Drea and John Schmitt, at
last Monday’s town hall meeting.
TYLER SMITH/THE ARGUS
seeCONCERTS p.2
see SMOKING BAN p.2